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- ItemAspects of quantum gravity in AdS3/CFT2(2019) Reyes Raffo, Ignacio Andrés; Erdmenger, Johanna; Koch, Benjamin; Bañados, Máximo; Ströhmer, Raimund; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de FísicaThe quest for finding a unifying theory for both quantum theory and gravity lies at the heart of much of the research in high energy physics. Although recent years have witnessed spectacular experimental confirmation of our expectations from Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity, the question of unification remains as a major open problem. In this context, the perturbative aspects of quantum black holes represent arguably the best of our knowledge of how to proceed in this pursue. In this thesis we investigate certain aspects of quantum gravity in 2 + 1 dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdS3), and its connection to Conformal field theories in 1 + 1 dimensions (CFT2), via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We study the thermodynamics properties of higher spin black holes. By focusing on the spin-4 case, we show that black holes carrying higher spin charges display a rich phase diagram in the grand canonical ensemble, including phase transitions of the Hawking-Page type, first order inter-black hole transitions, and a second order critical point. We investigate recent proposals on the connection between bulk codimension-1 volumes and computational complexity in the CFT. Using Tensor Networks we provide concrete evidence of why these bulk volumes are related to the number of gates in a quantum circuit, and exhibit their topological properties. We provide a novel formula to compute this complexity directly in terms of entanglement entropies, using techniques from Kinematic space. We then move in a slightly different direction, and study the quantum properties of black holes via de Functional Renormalisation Group prescription coming from Asymptotic safety. We avoid the arbitrary scale setting by restricting to a narrower window in parameter space, where only Newton’s coupling and the cosmological constant are allowed to vary. By one assumption on the properties of Newton’s coupling, we find black hole solutions explicitly. We explore their thermodynamical properties, and discover that very large black holes exhibit very unusual features.The quest for finding a unifying theory for both quantum theory and gravity lies at the heart of much of the research in high energy physics. Although recent years have witnessed spectacular experimental confirmation of our expectations from Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity, the question of unification remains as a major open problem. In this context, the perturbative aspects of quantum black holes represent arguably the best of our knowledge of how to proceed in this pursue. In this thesis we investigate certain aspects of quantum gravity in 2 + 1 dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdS3), and its connection to Conformal field theories in 1 + 1 dimensions (CFT2), via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We study the thermodynamics properties of higher spin black holes. By focusing on the spin-4 case, we show that black holes carrying higher spin charges display a rich phase diagram in the grand canonical ensemble, including phase transitions of the Hawking-Page type, first order inter-black hole transitions, and a second order critical point. We investigate recent proposals on the connection between bulk codimension-1 volumes and computational complexity in the CFT. Using Tensor Networks we provide concrete evidence of why these bulk volumes are related to the number of gates in a quantum circuit, and exhibit their topological properties. We provide a novel formula to compute this complexity directly in terms of entanglement entropies, using techniques from Kinematic space. We then move in a slightly different direction, and study the quantum properties of black holes via de Functional Renormalisation Group prescription coming from Asymptotic safety. We avoid the arbitrary scale setting by restricting to a narrower window in parameter space, where only Newton’s coupling and the cosmological constant are allowed to vary. By one assumption on the properties of Newton’s coupling, we find black hole solutions explicitly. We explore their thermodynamical properties, and discover that very large black holes exhibit very unusual features.The quest for finding a unifying theory for both quantum theory and gravity lies at the heart of much of the research in high energy physics. Although recent years have witnessed spectacular experimental confirmation of our expectations from Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity, the question of unification remains as a major open problem. In this context, the perturbative aspects of quantum black holes represent arguably the best of our knowledge of how to proceed in this pursue. In this thesis we investigate certain aspects of quantum gravity in 2 + 1 dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdS3), and its connection to Conformal field theories in 1 + 1 dimensions (CFT2), via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We study the thermodynamics properties of higher spin black holes. By focusing on the spin-4 case, we show that black holes carrying higher spin charges display a rich phase diagram in the grand canonical ensemble, including phase transitions of the Hawking-Page type, first order inter-black hole transitions, and a second order critical point. We investigate recent proposals on the connection between bulk codimension-1 volumes and computational complexity in the CFT. Using Tensor Networks we provide concrete evidence of why these bulk volumes are related to the number of gates in a quantum circuit, and exhibit their topological properties. We provide a novel formula to compute this complexity directly in terms of entanglement entropies, using techniques from Kinematic space. We then move in a slightly different direction, and study the quantum properties of black holes via de Functional Renormalisation Group prescription coming from Asymptotic safety. We avoid the arbitrary scale setting by restricting to a narrower window in parameter space, where only Newton’s coupling and the cosmological constant are allowed to vary. By one assumption on the properties of Newton’s coupling, we find black hole solutions explicitly. We explore their thermodynamical properties, and discover that very large black holes exhibit very unusual features.
- ItemEspacio overspinning y singularidades en espacios BTZ(2023) Briceño Catalán, Matías Sebastián Camilo; Bañados, Máximo; Martínez, Cristián; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de FísicaEn esta tesis se estudia el espacio Overspinning, solución a las ecuaciones de Einstein con constante cosmológica negativa (-1/ L^2) en 2+1 dimensiones tal que su momentum angular J sea mayor en módulo a su masa M, esto es, |J |> L |M| . Este espacio-tiempo comparte métrica con el agujero negro BTZ, pero al estar en otro rango de valores de (M,J) no posee horizonte de eventos, dando lugar a una singularidad desnuda. Se encontra su embedding sobre la pseudo esfera definida en R(2,2) al identificar puntos en la superficie. Se integran las ecuaciones de movimiento para sus geodésicas concluyendo que este espacio es geodésicamente incompleto. Con la estructura geodésica se muestra que este espacio es una solución razonable a las ecuaciones de Einstein, con una singularidad quasiregular. Además se estudia la singularidad presente en todos los espacios tipo BTZ a partir de las holonomías que la encierran. Se calculan sus holonomías sobre el espacio tangente ocupando una conexión de SO(2, 1) y luego las holonomías en la teoría de Chern-Simons equivalente ocupando una conexión de SO(2,2). Adicionalmente, se justifica la presencia de una fuente tipo delta de Dirac a partir de la existencia de holonomías no triviales en loops infinitesimales, dando una relación explícita entre estas. Por último, se exponen ideas no exploradas en este trabajo, que serán útiles para futuros trabajos.
- ItemLoops in Holographic Correlators(2023) Muñoz Sandoval, Iván Ignacio; Bañados, Máximo; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de FísicaIn the context of the Anti de-Sitter (AdS)/Conformal Field Theory (CFT) correspondence, we investigate the computation of holographic correlation functions for quantum fields in the bulk. Unlike the semi-classical approach, quantum computations involve Infra-Red (IR) and Ultra-Violet (UV) divergences. However, consistent with the semiclassical approximation, we find that IR infinities correspond to boundary divergences, while UV divergences correspond to the bulk. We present a systematic procedure for solving the perturbative quantum problem in the bulk. To illustrate our approach, we consider a Φ4 scalar field on a fixed AdS background and obtain the boundary correlation function in position and momentum space. In position space, we use two approximations: (i) we assume that the field is composed of the classical solution plus a quantum fluctuation, and we solve the classical part before using the holographic dictionary to obtain the quantum correction to the 2- and 4-point functions, requiring UV and IR renormalizations;(ii) using the quantum effective action, we renormalize the UV divergence from the equation of motions and then use the holographic dictionary to obtain the dual correlation function. Both formulations lead to the same conclusions and demonstrate that the bulk theory is renormalizable up to AdS7. Meanwhile, in momentum space, we use the background field method and renormalize the two-point function up to one loop, finding exact agreement with the position space computation. Finally, we provide a general set-up for obtaining the off-shell graviton bulk propagator, which is crucial for obtaining correlation functions for more realistic models.
- ItemOn D5-brane description of 1:4-BPS latitude Wilson loops in the AdS/CFT correspondence(2023) Moreno Vilches, Cristobal; Faraggi Ugalde, Alberto Tomás; Bañados, Máximo; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de FísicaMotivated by the AdS/CFT correspondence, the gravitational description of the 1/4-BPS latitude Wilson loop in the totally anti-symmetric representation of the gauge group is presented, under the dictionary this correspond to a D5-brane whose dynamics is governed by the DBI action and Weiss-Zumino. The approach we used was to work with the BPS equations coming from demanding the κ-symmetric projection condition on the target space killing spinor. Such equations are of first order in derivatives so in practice easily to solve instead of solving the Euler-lagrange equations coming from varying the action of the brane. In order to preserve all the symmetries that the Wilson loop has, the anzats used produces 16 BPS equations. Such equations were solved and we present the solution and study its properties.
- ItemQuantum scalar theories in the AdS/CFT correspondence(2021) Bianchi Palacios, Ernesto; Bañados, Máximo; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de FísicaThis thesis contains original research on the conjectured AdS/CFT correspondence. Known are the holographic correlators resulting from this correspondence under its classical approximation, confirming the conjecture at this level. In this work we will explore its consequences beyond this approximation, considering the quantum corrections to these known dual correlators for the particular cases of scalar Phi^3 and Phi^4 theories on a fixed AdS(d+1) background. This will involve the development of a scheme that adds systematically order by order the quantum corrections to the correlators obtained classically together with the computation of these new contributions, introducing on the way sensible regularization and renormalization schemes for the different expected divergences. This process will show in a clear way the effect of these loop corrections through the main role played by the infrared and ultraviolet divergences, which is briefly summarized in: the quantum corrections to the holographic correlators produce anomalies in the resulting CFT in the form of an anomalous scaling dimension, confirming the validity of the conjecture beyond tree-level computations. All this study is carried out throughout this thesis for arbitrary values of the parameters of the theory in the bulk. With the intention to study the general ideas and results developed in this work, at the end of the thesis a particular case is analyzed.